Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interested boozier of the Harvard football team, I would suggest you send a scout to the annual Dream game which will be played in Scranton, Penn., is December between the county and city all stars which is composed of the cream of the Antracite Valley where some of the toughest football is played in the hard coal region, this year are some of the greatest prospects that I ever saw so I would advise you to look 'em over...
...Monopoly. The steamboat company of Robert Fulton and Robert Livingston (brother of Louisiana's Governor Edward Livingston) had an 18-year monopoly over the rivers in Louisiana, "enough to bottle up the Valley." Shreve determined to break...
When the President reached New Or leans, Edward Livingston hurried down to look it over. "It was an odd vessel, he realized, only because no one had ever built a steamboat for the Mississippi. He could foresee that it would be the Valley steamboat of the future." "You deserve well of your country, young man," he told Shreve, "but we shall be compelled to beat...
Next spring he set out on a round trip to New Orleans-"the voyage from which all Western historians date the commence ment of steam navigation in the Mississippi Valley." The trip took nine days. Again Livingston seized the boat, again Shreve demanded bond...
...around him. He enjoyed enormous respect. He said little, wrote less: he had always been deeply taciturn. His life began to flow away like the River, and he was taken almost as much for granted. In the bustling civilization which he had done so much to bring to the Valley, he was almost like one of those Peoria Indians he used to see standing on the river front at Ste. Genevieve, wrapped in their blankets, waiting. "No one, not even the Indians themselves, knew what they were waiting for ... perhaps for this unreality of white men and white ways...